18 September 2003:

FORMAL REOPENING OF INQUESTS INTO THE DEATHS CAUSED BY THE
MONAGHAN BOMBING ON 17 MAY 1974

The inquests into six of the deaths resulting from the Monaghan Bombing of 17 May 1974 are listed before the Dublin City Coroner on Thursday, 18 September 2003 at 2.30 pm at the Coroner’s Court, Store Street, Dublin.

The inquest into the seventh Monaghan victim, Thomas Croarkin, who died in a Dublin hospital has already been resumed and is also up for mention at the same time as well as the inquests into the deaths of the 26 victims of the Dublin bombings of 17 May 1974 and the victims of the Dublin bombings of 1 December 1972 and 20 January 1973.

The families of the victims will be gathering at our Family Support Centre, 64, Lower Gardiner Street from 1.30 pm tomorrow and will walk together to the Coroner’s Court.

The families of the victims attach great significance to the formal resumption of these inquests.

For further information please contact:

Margaret Urwin, Campaign Secretary: (01) 85 54 300

Greg O'Neill, Solicitor: 087 23 93 175

Bernie McNally, Chairperson: (01) 86 70 296